Time

TO OUR READERS 4

LETTERS 8

CHRONICLES 17

MILESTONES 25

WHITEWATER: It's a Jungle Out There 26

The Clintons face subpoenas and hearings and Dole, oh my!

The Investigation: An old rival emerges 28

First Family Finances: How much they may owe 29

EDUCATION: Who Will Pay for the Schools? 31

In a historic vote, Michigan says tax consumption not property

THE PRESIDENCY: Grandfather of Our Country 32

Forsaking an imperial retirement, George Bush kicks back

NORTHERN IRELAND: Silver Tongue of Sinn Fein 34

Gerry Adams says the latest I.R.A.attacks are a plea for peace

BOSNIA: Easing the Sarajevo Siege 36

Zeal for warfare ebbs, and the peace process begins

SOMALIA: Darkness Visible 37

As the U.S. pulls out, anarchy threatens once more

MIDDLE EAST: Specter of Hebron 38

An inquiry into the massacre turns up troubling questions

ASIA: The Great Divides 42

Exclusive interviews in South Korea and China

COVER: Tiger, Tiger, Fading Fast 44

Pressures from poaching and human population growth have pushed the big cats to the brink of extinction. Can trade sanctions against nations that use tiger parts protect the animal when parks, police and appeals to public opinion have failed?

A Poacher's Tale: Shooting the beast at close range

MEDICINE: When the Biopsy Reveals Fraud 52

A researcher falsified a key study of breast-cancer surgery

SCIENCE: Don't Blame Columbus 53

Tuberculosis existed in America before Europeans arrived

HEALTH: Could This Be Polio, Again? 54

Forty years after the epidemic, the disease haunts its survivors

BUSINESS: Make Way for Swatchmobile! 56

What happens when you marry a car and a watch?

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Photography: As his Whitney retrospective reveals, Richard Avedon photographs others to make portraits of himself 60

Music: Hammer and Vanilla Ice are back 64

Books: The brutal conquest of Mexico 66

Gus Lee's China Boy becomes a man of honor

The Great Divorce: a novel of females and felines

William T. Vollmann is too fascinated with himself

Television: Melrose Place gets hot by playing dumb 69

SPORT: Not with a Whack but a Whimper 73

Tonya Harding bargains her way out of a messy legal tangle

PEOPLE 75

ESSAY 76